WEEKLY SYLLABUS FOR YOUR COURSE
(DUE ON THE DATE OF YOUR FIRST CLASS)




INSTRUCTORS NAME: Grace Manning Orenstein

COURSE NUMBER: Psy 8554 COURSE NAME: Early Childhood Mental Health: Center Based Prevention and Early Intervention


Recommended, at least three from each section
Topic
Race/class/gender and culture
· Carlson, V.J. & Harwood, R.L. (1999) Understanding and negotiating cultural differences concerning early developmental competence: the six-raisin solution. Zero to Three, December 1999/Jan 2000.
· Casper, V. (2003) Very young children in lesbian-and-gay headed families: moving beyond acceptance. Zero to Three, January.
  • Derman-Sparks, L. & Phillips, C.B. (1997). Teaching/learning anti-racism: a developmental approach. Teachers College Press: NY, NY. pp 9-31.
· Farver, J. & Howes, C. (1993) Cultural differences in American and Mexican mother-child pretend play. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 398, pp 344-358.
· Finn, C.D. (2003) Cultural Models for Early Care Giving. Zero to Three, May.
· Martini, M. (2002) How mothers in four American cultural groups shape infant learning during mealtimes. In Zero to Three. Washington, DC. February/March. pp 14-20.
· Sue, D. et al. (2007) Racial microaggressions in everyday life. In American Psychologist. Vol. 62, No. 4. pp 271-286.
· Wright, M. (1998) Developmental stages of racial awareness. In I’m chocolate, you’re vanilla. Jossy-Bass: San Francisco. pp. 266-267.
Topic
Theory: How theory attributes meaning to child behavior
Siegle, D.J. (1999) The Developing Mind. Guilford Pres: NY, NY. pp 1-160.
Neurobiology
  • Perry, B.D. ((2005) Maltreatment and the developing child. Margaret McCain Lecture Series. Center for Children & Families in the Justice System. London, England.
Attachment/Relationship
· Cassidy, J. (1999) The nature of the child’s ties. Handbook of attachment: theory, research and clinical applications. Guildford Press. NY, NY pp 3-20.
  • Fosha, E. (2003) Dyadic regulation and experiential work with emotion and relatedness in trauma and disorganized attachment. In Healing trauma: attachment, mind, body and brain. (Soloman & Siegel (eds). W.W. Norton & Company: NY, NY.
  • Werner, E.E. (2002) Protective factors and individual resilience. In Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention, 2nd Edition. J Shonkoff & S. Miesels (eds). Cambridge Press: Cambridge, England.
Cognitive/Behavioral
  • Ormrod, J.E. (1999). Notes on social learning theory. In Human learning 3rd edition. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Developmental
  • Bricker, D. et al. (1999). Ages and Stages Questionnaire—Social Emotional. From Early Intervention Program, Center on Human Development, University of Oregon, Eugene. H. Brookes: Baltimore. pp 111-120
  • Greenspan, S. & Mahler, M. (1995) Relationships are key: what are relationships? In Young Children. November 1995.
  • Harms, T. (1980). Erickson, E. & Piaget, H. developmental stages. unpublished.
  • Honig, A.S. (1997) Infant temperament and personality: what do we need to know? Montessori LIFE, summer.
  • Koplow, L. (1996) Making room for emotional life in preschool. In Unsmiling faces: how
  • preschools can heal. Teachers’ College Press: NY, NY. pp 3-41.

Parenting Counseling: Holding the parent in order to hold the child
  • Child picture
· Jernberg, A.M. (1990) The parent-infant relationship. In Theraplay. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco. pp 4-5.
  • Kierkegaard, S. (1938) quotation
  • Fraiberg, S., Adelson, E. & Shapiro, V. (1975). Ghosts in the nursery: a psychoanalytic approach to the problem of impaired infant-mother relationships. Journal of American academy of child psychiatry. Vol.14, pp 387-422.
  • Fraiberg, S. (1982). Pathological defenses in infancy. The psychoanalytic quarterly. Vol. 51, pp 612-645.
  • Manning-Orenstein, G. (1994) A brief psychology of parenting. Unpublished.
  • Siegle, D. (1999). Relationships and the developing mind. In Childcare Information Exchange. November, pp 48-51.
  • Slade, A. (2002). Keeping the Baby in Mind. Zero to Three. June/July.
· Trad, D. (1988). Mechanisms of caregiver-infant interaction. Source unknown.
· Winnicott, D. (1965). The theory of parent-infant relationship. In Maturational processes and the facilitating environment. International University Press: Madison, Connecticut.
  • Fosha, E. (2003) Dyadic regulation and experiential work with emotion and relatedness in trauma and disorganized attachment. In Healing trauma: attachment, mind, body and brain. (Soloman & Siegel (eds). W.W. Norton & Company: NY, NY.
  • Werner, E.E. (2002) Protective factors and individual resilience. In Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention, 2nd Edition. J Shonkoff & S. Miesels (eds). Cambridge Press: Cambridge, England.


Reflective Consultation in Child Development Centers: Holding the teachers in order to hold the parents and children
  • Collins, R. et al. (2003) Promoting mental health in childcare settings: caring for the whole child. In Zero to Three. March, pp 39-45.
  • Crary, E. (1993) Before you begin. In Without spanking or spoiling. Parenting Press: Seattle, Washington, pp 7-18.
  • Day, M. & Parlakian, R. (2003) How culture shapes social-emotional development: implications for practice in infant-family programs. Zero to Three. Washington, DC.
  • Gilliiam, W.S. (2007) California PK expulsion fact sheet. In Prekindergarteners left behind: expulsion rates in state prekindergarten programs. In Foundations for child development. A.L. Mailman Family Foundation.
  • Koplow, L. (1996) Unsmiling Faces. Teachers College Press: NY, NY, pp 43-89.
  • Johnston, J. (2002) Essential elements of a consultant’s way of being. Unpublished.